Enda Kenny to focus on 'undocumented' Irish during meeting with Donald Trump

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has set the tone for his week-long US visit by insisting securing the safety of the estimated 50,000 illegal Irish in America will be one of his "absolute priorities" when he meets Donald Trump on Thursday, writes Fiachra O Cionnaith.

In his first official comments on the five-city trip, Mr Kenny on Saturday night told an Irish-American event in Philadelphia that while "immigration reform" is a "sensitive" issue in the US, it cannot happen at the expense of "hard-working, tax-paying Irish people".